Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-11-20
FOUR ROUNDS ARE FOUGHT.
The Fight Awarded the Kid" on Kings
Refusal to Continue.
SOME LOCAL TALENT EXHIBITED,

A fair sized audience composed Of lovers
of the manly art assembled at the Capitol
Rink last evening to witness q glove con-
test between Mr.. Jack King, q well
known local light of the ring, and Mr..
Lem McGregory, of Cincinnati, whose
nom de gHerre is ''the ST Joe Kid" The
latter has quite a reputation as a fighter.
The patience of the sports, who had
come to see some hard hitting was sorely
tried during the first two hours, which
were taken up with amateur and semi
professional Friendly bouts" A number
of the ambitious local amateur pugilists
mounted the platform at intervals and
whanged away at each other's6gur heads,
more or less to the satisfaction
of the audience. John Hennessy
and TOD" Meredith gave a very
pretty exhibition, although Hen
messy was considerably outweighted.
MesSrs. Coughlin and Morrissy, the latter
of whom goes by the e%uphonious coguo-
men of "the East Wheeling SPIDER her
hoped into the ring and whaled away al
one another. THE Spider" though very
agile, was also outweighted by his antag-
onist, on whose breadth of frame he could
make but little impression. "Bilson
Jack" somewhat famous in local hitting
circles, later on in the evening interrupted
the seance long enough to challenge Mr..
Coughlin to contest with him at some
| Ent,ra tinn Which nh,l,- NJ.
Coughlin desisted long enough from
his occupation of tanning, Jack King
to accept.
Next OF the programme came
MeSsrs. Chaplin, of Benwood, and Ciouse,
of Wheeling. This was decidedly the mos,
wicked contest" Of the evening. They
fought for blood and the blood was there,
to the intense delight of the audience.
Clouse was awarded the first and only
"knock-down" of the evening, which,
however, was more of a showdown than d
Observation-Disclosures knock down.
The audience wanted more of it hut the
three rounds ended it, although it did not
settle who was the better man" After
a few more amateurs had the pleasure OF
pounding each others yisages to a rosy
red the great bout of the evening was an.
nounced and ''the st. Joe Kid" bounded
lightly between the ropes, stripped to the
waist, his sturdy legs incased in red
"tIghts."
THE st. Joe Kid" stands five feet, nine
or ten inches high, and strips at IT'S pounds.
He is very compactly built, stands as
straight as an arrow, and altogether is a
,-.r, ,,n ..o;p,a, nf tha an, aInr~ar
His antagonist, Jack King, is much taller
and some ten pounds heavier. King is
formidable looking man when stripped,
though not near so prettily built as the
kid" Mr.. Lynch, of Pittsburgh, was
chosen referee and timekeeper. Four one
minute rounds were fought. Six-ounce
gloves were used.
The sympathies of the majority of the
audience were with 1.-The Kid" he being
the smaller and at the same time the pref
tier fighter. Mr.. McGregory had given
an exhibition of his proves at the rooms
of the Wheeling Athletic Club the evening
before and showed himself to be q man OF
muscle and a scientific boxer. Mr.. Kings
talents are well known in Wheeling.
The two heavy weights went at it in
earnest. They spared cautiously for an
opening and struck wickedly when they
got 1t. In the first round their blows re-
sembled clock-work though ''the KIDS
gloves visited the Wheeling mans visage
somewhat the oftener and stood guard over
their pessessor's smiling countenance a
little the more vigilantly. The second
round was a counterpart Of the first.
In the third ''the Kid" tried to throw
King when they came together, but did
not succeed. The fourth aud last round
was characterized by heavy hitting, and
the Cincinnati man had the best Of it.
He seemed possessed Of more wind" and
science than his antagonist, though the
fight was not decided to the satisfaction of
the audience by a long way, as was testi-
fled by the Kisses that rent the air, min
gled with cries of "Anotner round!' six
rounds" $50 at him again, KiDg!'
Give him another one, Kid" etc, etc.
In the midst of it all 'the
Kid" stepped to the footlights
and offered to fight ''any nan
in the country, John l.. Sullivan except
ed" or forfeit 5000, man and money
ready" Then the referee, Mr.. Lynch,
broke in and declared that "as far rs it
went" the fight was a draw. This did
not satisfy the audience, who clamored for
another round to decide it. Then the
referee yielded and called for another
round. King had left the stage by this
time, and it being announced that he re-
fused to fight another round, the fight was
awarded 1.-THE st. Joe Kid"
Among the lights Of the ring. present
were Dominick Mccartney and Pete" and
Tied" Dillon, the latter of whom staggers
under the proud title of "the light weight
chamninn of pennsylvania